{"id":1611,"date":"2017-07-12T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/12\/tom-perez-on-net-neutrality-day-of-action\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:20:00","slug":"tom-perez-on-net-neutrality-day-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-net-neutrality-day-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez on Net Neutrality Day of Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In honor of the&nbsp;Net&nbsp;Neutrality&nbsp;Day&nbsp;of&nbsp;Action, DNC Chair&nbsp;Tom&nbsp;Perez&nbsp;released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Obama enacted historic and tough&nbsp;net&nbsp;neutrality&nbsp;rules for good reason&mdash;we need strong guidelines designed to protect budding startups and businesses from large corporations that might want to stamp out their competition.&nbsp; We need to fight to preserve the power a free and open Internet gives the marginalized and underrepresented to organize and have their voices heard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats believe that an open Internet is fundamental to free speech, innovation, and a competitive economy.&nbsp; The Internet needs to remain a level playing field where the reach of one&rsquo;s voice is determined by quality of ideas and not a handful of CEO&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the spirit of the&nbsp;Net&nbsp;Neutrality&nbsp;Day&nbsp;of&nbsp;Action, take time today to call your members of Congress and the FCC and urge them to maintain the open internet protections the Obama Administration established.&nbsp; The free flow of information shouldn&rsquo;t be impeded by greedy gatekeepers.&nbsp; The Republicans who put the wallets of big telecom companies and their lobbyists over the best interests of their constituents need to be held accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the&nbsp;Net&nbsp;Neutrality&nbsp;Day&nbsp;of&nbsp;Action, DNC Chair&nbsp;Tom&nbsp;Perez&nbsp;released the following statement: &ldquo;President Obama enacted historic and tough&nbsp;net&nbsp;neutrality&nbsp;rules for good reason&mdash;we need strong guidelines designed to protect budding startups and businesses from large corporations that might want to stamp out their competition.&nbsp; We need to fight to preserve the power a free and open Internet gives the marginalized <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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